Half Price Perfumes have a great little deal on Bourjois Eau de Gloss - five for £5; they should be retailing for £39.95.

• Click HERE to hot foot it over to Half Price Perfumes

The last time these little beauties were on offer they sold out FAST, so the 'early bird' and all that applies to this deal.

PlayPennies dads, I know this is no good for you (well, maybe only on the weekends hey *wink*) but if you think a little more laterally you could stack up some brownie points if you bought this for the woman in your life, as a little 'just because...' pressie;  you know it makes sense!

And girls - you can't beat a bit of lip gloss to make you feel just a little bit more glam', even on the most drudge days.

I never bought in to the idea that only celebrity mums are allowed to look groomed and lovely.  Don't get me wrong, I don't wander around in full 'slap' every day, but a quick swoosh of mascarra and and a swipe of lip gloss can make you feel great and ready to take on the world (or maybe it's just me...)

These lovely little Eau de Gloss dodgers have a 14% water content that keep your lips moisterised for up to four hours - just the thing for avoiding chapped lips heading in to winter!

Standard shipping from Half Price Perfumes, by the way, is £3.95.

If you've got older girls in the family to buy for, whether it's for birthdays or Christmas, then one of these £5.99 beauty bags from Half Price Perfumes could be just the thing to solve your pressie dilemma!

There are several of them so I'll link to each one for you:

• Beauty Bag for Eyes - £5.99 (should be £29.00)

Contains leading brand make-up in a rubberised Black by Design make-up bag (worth £8.99).
Set includes:
1 x Revlon Colorstay 12 Hour Eyeshadow
1 x Boots Prestige Mono Eyeshadow
1 x Rimmel London Professional Eyebrow Pencil with applicator
1 x Wet'n'Wild Waterpoorf mascara ( black)
1 x Wet'n'Wild I-Sparkle Eyeshadow palette and applicators!

• Beauty Bag for Lips - £5.99 (should be £35)

Set includes:
1 x Revlon Renewist Lipcolour
1 x Revlon Lip Shimmer
1 x Boujois La Crème tinted lip cream
1 x Girl2Go Icy Shine amazing cool -effect lip gloss
1 x Cowshed Lippy Cow natural Lip balm

• Beauty Bag - Rimmel London: eyes, lips and cheeks - £5.99 (should be £36.94)

Five of Rimmel London's bestselling essential make-up must-haves with a versatile rubberized zip-top make-up case.
Includes 5 full sized Rimmel Products:
1 x Eye Twist automatic duo liner and shadow
1 x Volume Booster lip pluming gloss
1 x Kiss Off Lip Gloss
1 x 1000 Kisses Italian stay on lip pencil
1 x Mono Powder blush for the cheeks

• Chupa Chups Love Trap 75ml eau de toilette hipster-bag - £5.99 (should be £24.98)

Get a big 75ml Chupa Chups Love Trap Eau De Toilette Spray (worth £16) perfect for freshening up and get a FREE woven shoulder Hipster bag in either sand or black.

The hand-crafted hipster bag with cherry and grape motif flap lifts up to reveal a zip top pouch perfect for keeping your money,phone and other essentials safe and secure.

Measures approx. 15cm x 13cm

Standard delivery is just £3.95.

Girls! Half Price Perfumes have black Rimmel and Maybelline mascaras going for £5.99 WITH free delivery! Quick, get over there before they all go.

• Click HERE to get over to Half Price Perfumes

We've just been talking about, and looking at, provisional dates for our Christmas party and so my thoughts are now on Crimbo party dresses and looking glam'.

Mascara, along with a pair of good eyelash curlers, would be my desert island make up item if I had to choose one.  I can forgo all the rest of the stuff I slap on my face but mascara is a MUST.

So imagine my delight when Half Price Perfumes emailed me to let me know they have Rimmel and Maybelline mascaras up for grabs for £5.99 instead of their usual retail prices, which vary.

At some point or other we all remember being told that we should replace our mascara every three months, wheter we've finished it or not.

Did you know that's because there are tiny bugs living on your lashes that eat all the skank they catch and stop going in our eyes?  So we shove them into our mascara and they start living happily in there too!

And on that lovely note, I'll leave you to rush off to buy a new mascara and throw away all your old ones! Oh, by the way, the code you need for the free delivery is MaybEyes - enter it as I've written it.

Happy glamourous eyes and bug-free mascara!!

This Skin Nutrition lip plumper should set you back a whopping £43.95...if you're quick you can grab one from Half Price Perfumes for £4.99!

• Click HERE to dash over to Half Price Perfumes

I use a product that does a similar thing to this Skin Nutrition lip plumper and I love it.  These products won't give you a trout pout or lips like Angelina Jolie - so if that's the look you after then, sorry, this won't be for you.

But if you just want that little bit extra 'something' without going under the collagen needle or whatever, then you could do worse than give this a bash.

Here's the official blurb on how it works:

"Skin Nutrition’s Lip Plumping Therapy contains Oligopeptide, which is an amino peptide that naturally stimulates collagen production. The increased collagen production will increase lip fullness as well as improve lip colour.

Standard shipping with Half Price Perfumes is £3.95 but if you really can't wait, and want your things the very next day (obviously that won't apply if you order today or tomorrow) then you can pay £6 instead.

Half Price Perfumes have these Gold Fake Bake 'Just Been Funked' mini hair straighteners on offer for £9.99 instead of £43!

• Click HERE to go 'straight' to Half Price Perfumes

For those of us who aren't blessed with straight 'wash and go' hair, life without hair straighteners isn't worth contemplating! In fact, it's plain scary!

Scary for those unfortunate enough to wake up next to someone looking like the Wild Woman of Wonga, and scary for us as we'd have to walk around with hair a'la Diana Ross in the early 70s!

Hair straighteners have come a long way since the ancient, and huge, metal plates that were the Babyliss ones I had over 20 years ago.

Now we have super-fast, super-hot ceramic ones, big ones, small ones, mini ones.

And then there are those with Tourmaline coated plates, like these Fake Bake 'Just Been Funked' mini hair straighteners. Apparently it's a rare mineral (so rare they're using it on hair straighteners...hmmm) that generates negative ions and infrared heat, which is supposed to be more gentle to your hair.

Well, anything that causes less damage to hair that has to be beaten and heated into submission can only be a good thing, and the reduced price of these Fake Bake hair straighteners is definitely a good thing!

Delivery is a standard £3.95 unless you want them next day, in which case it's £6.

Happy Straightening!

Jelly watches seem to be the latest thing in time piece wear and Half Price Perfumes have them going for a song...well £2.99 actually.

• Click HERE to jelly on over to halfpriceperfumes.com

YIPPEEE! My teenagers go back to school today and their lives are going to be ruled by time for at least the next seven weeks until half term - when we (that's you and me, the grown ups) were at school, I'm SURE that half terms didn't come around so fast!

There'll be no more dossing in bed until they feel like getting up, no more mooching around at night and going to bed when they feel like it. Oh no!

It's going to be up at 7am, leave for the bus by 8am, school by 8.30am, lessons all day, home by 4pm, homework done by 6pm (hey, I can dream can't I?!), dinner by 7pm, bed by 10pm ready to do it all again the following day.

All of this is ok, but I've lost count of the number of watches they've lost during the course of their school career! So £2.99 (rather than £12.99) for a bang-on-trend Jelly digital sports watch is an absolute bargain and the perfect solution for watch-losing kids.

The strap is made of a flexible jelly-like material and the face - which displays the day, date and time - is encased in that too and they come in the following colours: black, lilac, orange, pink, yellow and white

My kids - including my youngest, he loves watches - have chosen their colours.  Which colour will yours choose?!

They say you attract what you think about most (yeah, that winning lottery ticket still hasn't rocked up!), I was about to google around for a cheap pair of decent straighteners when an email from Half Price Perfumes landed in my inbox with a Fake Bake hair straigheners offer! 'Mazin!

• Click HERE for this hot deal

So, this is a bit of a step in to the unknown for me. I'm a VERY loyal GHD straighteners fan. I love them!

WITH them, I'm a glossy straight-haired goddess, WITHOUT them...I'm more like the Wild Woman of Borneo!

I spend a fair bit of time in various places overseas and, until my straighteners start earning airmiles too, it's easier to leave a pair behind in each place so I don't have to pack them every time I go away.

BUT much as I adore my GHDs I REFUSE to buy another two sets that I won't be using every other day, SO I'm going to give these Fake Bake hair straighteners a bash (perhaps I'll write a mini review about them and let you know how they compared!).

They come in two colours - gold and pink, I'm torn here - gold isn't really my 'thing'...neither is hot pink! But for £12.99, instead of £30, and with free delivery from Half Price Perfumes, does it really matter?!

Apparently they aren't just another ceramic straightener, oh no! They use, and I quote, 'Tourmaline to generate negative ions and infrared heat to manage and control hair. Where traditional stylers use aggressive heat to force hair to conform, these stylers are a breath of fresh air for you hair!'

Well it all sounds good to me and for £12.99 as long as they banish the Wild Woman of Borneo then it's all good.

To get free delivery on these Fake Bake hair straighteners, just enter FUNKME at the checkout (be careful writing that!) and this would be a good time to pick up any other bits and pieces you've been looking at to take advantage of the free delivery code.

I've decided on the gold ones, I think...

Half Price Perfumes have Olay Definity Deep Nourishing Anti-Ageing Night Cream up for grabs for just £9.99!

• Click HERE for this dream of a deal

I remember when Olay used to be called Oil of Ulay, when it came in a pink plastic bottle, was a runny pink liquid...and that was IT!

My mum used to use it and I seem to remember it wasn't aimed at the expensive end of the skincare market, at least that was my childhood impression of it. Then one day Oil of Ulay was rebranded 'Olay' (to this day, I still want to say 'OLE!') and all of a sudden a huge skincare juggernaut rolled into town.

Now there's Olay Regenerist, Olay Total Effects and Olay Definity sitting alongside the classic products they started with. I remember deciding to give one of these new OLE! sorry, Olay products a bash and very quickly decided NOT to when I saw the price tag!

Olay Definity Deep Nourishing Anti-Ageing Night Cream sells in Boots for £24.99 and I refuse to buy a litt pot of cream for that! It could be the best cream in the entire world but for £24.99 I don't want to run the risk of finding out it's only average, regardless of the advertising claims.

If you feel the sae way, now's your chance to try Olay Definity Deep Nourishing Anti-Ageing Night Cream for a fraction of the price. I should point out that the packaging is in Greek but as Half Price Perfumes say on their site 'but who cares at this price!'

OLE!

Have I mentioned that it's Father's Day a week on Sunday on 22 June....?

• Click HERE to waft on over to HalfPricePerfumes (main page)

Way back in February we sent some smellies out to a few PlayPennies dads to sniff, smell and smother themselves in.   '1 million' by Paco Rabane was included in the review and is one of the aftershaves on offer with Half Price Perfumes for Father's Day (did I mention that was soon...?).  It's been reduced from £64.99 to just £29.99 AND you'll also get a free '1 million' flight bag with this purchase too!

The other deals FOR HIM are:

• 50ml Calvin Klein 'Eternity' - £19.99 (was £45.00)
• 75ml Calvin Klein 'Obsession' - £24.95 (was £35.00)
• 50ml Calvin Klein 'Man' - £19.99 (was £36.00)
• 40ml Hugo Boss 'In Motion' - £21.99 (was £29.99)
• 50ml Paul Smith 'Man' - £19.99 (was £35.00)
• 75ml Ralph Lauren 'Polo Explorer' - £24.99 (was £45.00)
• 100ml 212 'on ice' for men - £29.99 (was £34.00)
• 50ml Hugo Boss 'Balderssarini Del Mar Marbella' - £19.99 (was £45.00)

So there you go - you can also still take advantage of THIS freebie too and get a free 7ml size of Calvin Klein 'Obsession Night' included with your order.

I've got THE best pun for this deal - get ready to groan...

• Click HERE for this udderly fabulous freebie over at HalfPricePerfumes

Well at least I warned you it was bad *grin*

I love this lip balm from Cowshed for its name alone! But there's a lot more to love about 'Lippy Cow' lip balm than its monicker, oh yes!

It doesn't contain any parabens, it doesn't have any petrochemicals in it either.  No sulphates, no artificial colours and it's suitable for vegetarians (I know why, but I did just get this mental image of veggies squirting great squirts of lip balm into their mouths - it amused me).

The blurb about it says this - see if this tempts you...

"Lippy Cow Natural Lip Balm soothes the lips leaving them soft and supple with essential oils of linden blossom, rose geranium and ylang ylang. Linden blossom protects and soothes, rose geranium calms whilst ylang ylang moisturises."

As with most freebies you need to pay the P&P, which is £3.95, and this particular Cowshed product usually retails for £8.00 and I LOVE IT.

If you want to nab one of them for yourself then just enter FreeTheCow into the promotion code box at the checkout and HalfPricePerfumes will zoom one right along to you.

Happy getting Lippy!

"We're not selling it to you at full price! NO! We're not even selling it for half price...we're giving it away FREEEEEEE" (although you will need to pay the P&P!)

• Click HERE for this fab freebie

I don't get very excited about handbags, shoes or designer clothes but perfumes....?  Well NOW we're talking!

HalfPricePerfumes are giving away a 7ml handbag size bottle of Calvin Klein's 'Obsession Night', which normally retails at £5.99, for FREE although you do need to pay the delivery for it (which is £3.95).

I love this perfume and I'm becoming a BIG fan of handbag-sized versions of my favourites because it means I don't have to lug around the big bottles, can have a quick spritz when I'm out and about and also I can pack them in my hand luggage when I fly as they are well under the 100mls maximum liquid limit.

The blurb for Obsession Night says it's...

"A fragrance taylored for the young, sophisticated and vivacious woman. This delicious fruity blend of citrus, fresh flowers, sexy vanilla and elegant amber captures the warmth and intensity of the night and the woman who shines."

If that's you, then scoot on over to Half Price Perfumes pronto!  Just enter this code at the checkout: FREECKNIGHT (and dont' worry that it looks like they've upped the price from £0.00 to £5.99 - I've run this through the checkout process and it all works fine).

Hands up if you'd like a pair of M: UK sunglasses for FREEEEE!!

To get a heads-up on the latest deals I subscribe to lots of of different newsletters etc and this fab offer from halfpriceperfumes dropped into my inbox this morning.

Click on the links below and choose a pair

• M: UK retro round
• M: UK aviator brow
• M: UK wayfarer
• M: UK belt buckle detail (look a bit aviatoresque!)

So M: UK glasses are sold on the highstreet in Boots, House Of Fraser, Fenwicks, ASOS and at Alpha Duty Free and the prices of the styles on offer usually cost about £30 - you can have them for just £3.95 which is the standard delivery charge.

Just pick your pair and add it to the basket, then go to the checkout and enter FULLHOUSE into the disount code box and as if by magic the cost of the glasses will vanish and you'll just be left with £3.95 to pay.

The offer is limited to one pair per household (you could always send a pair to your mum's address, your nan's address, Aunt Mable's address!) and will only run whilst stocks last so be QUICK!

What a bargain, in fact it's going to be my deal of the day!

Any busy mother will tell you that time is at a premium from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed, and sometimes there just isn't time to go for the full make-up routine.

But you know, that doesn't mean you have to give up looking and feeling luscious' and lovely - just putting on a bit of a lip gloss can make you feel super sexy and glam'.

Half price perfumes have some fabulous lip gloss and lip stick deals at the moment and whether you're a clear and natural gloss fan or a die-hard RED lipstick fan, I'm sure there'll be something here to add to your make-up bag.

Nab this fabulous Bobbi Brown lip gloss for a fraction of the rrp - usually £14.00 you can pick this up for just £6.99 AND delivery on this item is FREE! It's scented with a hint of vanilla and has a whole host of botanical extracts in it to keep your lips soft, smooth and supple.

Add any of these other items to your basket you'll be into delivery charge territory which is £3.95 for standard first class, £4.95 other courier or £6.00 for next day.

If clear lip gloss is your thing (it's mine) then you can pick up this brilliant Benefit 'Crystal' gloss for £4.99 instead of £14.00!

Maybe you want to buy a few shades for your money, in which case have a look at these Bourjois 'La Creme' glosses that work as a gloss, lip balm and offers the coverage of a lipstick in one.  They're going for a pound each instead of the usual £7.99 and you can order a maximum of three.

Finally, as promised, here's one for the die-hard red lippy girls - a Bourjois 'So Rouge' lipstick.  It's an unused tester so will come in a plain box marked 'tester' but other than that it's exactly the same as the regular lipsticks, if you're happy with that then you can grab one for £ instead of the usual £9.00; a bargain in my view as most of us just throw the packaging away!

So there you go PlayPennies mums - a little bit of parent pampering for you on this Friday afternoon.  Enjoy!